[Steve_Seattle]

"Look at old newsreels and look at how common people dressed for the baseball game or for the movies, and CERTAINLY for travel."

In photos of old baseball games, the men typically wore coats and ties. On local TV, there's a newsreel of downtown Seattle, c. 1915, and all the men are wearing suits, and all the women are wearing long dresses. Even little boys wore ties.

I was watching a Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett version) episode yesterday, and even while hiking and camping in the Alps, Holmes and Watson are wearing sport/suit jackets, neckties, and tweed hats. The main difference between their London garb is that they are wearing boots and gaitors.

[Dr. Sivana]

all the men are wearing suits, and all the women are wearing long dresses.

Yes. Some think that the idea of a woman dressing modestly puts her somewhere on the line closer to the Muslim attitude towards women, as if a long dress with sleeves was half-way to burqaland. The classic styles were meant to draw attention to and frame a woman's face, and to show the woman as a woman, not as a danger meant to be covered up, nor as a peep show drawing emphasizing or drawing attention to the nether areas in order to shock or titillate.

Chesterton wrote on his trip tothe Holy Land in the 1920's that the mix of Christian and Muslim women reminded him of a chess board, with the Christian women wearing white and the Muslim women wearing black.

[freepertoo]

Hound of the Baskervilles, I’ll bet — the two parter.